Police officer shoots young dog, witness claims that dog was friendly

Penny Eims

Dog News Examiner

Family photo via Huffington Post

April 30, 2014

According to Tuesday's KPLC 7 News, a Sulphur, La., police officer fatally shot a 14-month-old dog on Monday morning after being called out to investigate a call about two suspicious men who were trespassing.
Though the police officer has stated that the dog bit him, a witness to the traumatic scene has a different version of what took place at the parking lot of the Southwest Daily News. The young dog, named "Arzy Kensington," had been tied to a fence near a box truck which Brandon Carpenter, 28, and Logan Laliberte, 21, had taken shelter in when it started to rain.
According to Eric Midkiff, circulation manager at the Southwest Daily News, the officer who had been called out to the scene to investigate a possible trespassing, interacted briefly with the dog before firing the fatal shot. Midkiff described what he saw to the Huffington Post:

The dog was rubbing up against the cop,
He would rub the dog's back and then push him away. All of a sudden, he just jumped down and shot the dog in the head."

He added:

That dog did not bite that officer,"
"The dog was wagging his tail, his tongue was hanging out."

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Chipotle Blasts Factory Farms Following GMO Labeling Campaign

Natural Society

by Christina Sarich
September 22nd, 2013
Updated 09/22/2013 at 1:06 pm

If you are tired of big corporations whitewashing the truth about our precious food supply, wretched factory farming, and the way we inject our food with hormones and antibiotics only to conveyor-belt them through factory farms, then you may love Chipotle’s new ad/smartphone game, “The Scarecrow”. The ad/game offers an imaginative glimpse into the cruel world of factory farms. It reminds all of us in the most breathtakingly simple way that we do have a choice about how we make our food, and how we eat or food.
The ad details the life of a scarecrow – an animated metaphor for the hollow man and woman we’ve all become – clocking into a dreary facility, witnessing the cruel treatment of animals as they are plumped up with growth hormones in boxes and tiny cages. In one pivotal scene, the camera zooms into a cow with a tag on its ear – a mere number in the long chain of ‘food’ that will feed a zombie nation.
Is it possible that the brainwashing will halt, and we will see more of this artful form of ousting the industrial food factory – the lilting voice of Fiona Apple singing “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? I couldn’t think of a more wretchedly beautiful way to orchestrate a great awakening myself.

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This ad is a long-awaited breathe of fresh air. It isn’t simply the mind-boggling notion that a single corporation responsible for serving millions of people every day would treat and serve such food. It will simply turn the world upside down. It’s already making quite an impression:

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Homeless Goats in the City

March 2, 2012 by desertrose 

Urban Homesteading’s Dark Side

The Trend in Backyard Chickens and Goats has Left Rescues Overrun with Abandoned Livestock

January 1, 2012 | Jodi Helmer |

A boy checks out one of Woodstock Farm’s rescued goats in upsate New York.

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Wayne Geiger fields up to 10 calls per week about hens and roosters in need of new homes. When Geiger founded Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary in 2002, most of the calls he received involved horses, sheep and cattle that were victims of neglect or cruelty. There were almost no requests to help chickens. Geiger blames the increased demand on the popularity of urban farming.
For many urban agrarians, chickens and goats are the perfect addition to a backyard farm, providing eggs and milk to complement bumper crops of tomatoes and peas. But when the novelty of having a chirping chick wears off or adorable kids turn into grownup goats that eat the landscaping, the animals are often surrendered to rescue groups or abandoned.
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Homeless Goats in the City

2/17/2012 4:31:05 PM

by Margret Aldrich

As urban homesteading continues its rise, city backyards are booming with agrarian dreams: chickens peck near privacy fences, milk-producing goats bleat greetings to overflying airplanes, and tomato and pea plants stretch toward the smoggy sun. But coupled with these well-intentioned back-to-the-earth efforts is a dark side, says E Magazine’s Jodi Helmer, as the farm animals we bring to the city get short shrift.
Animal rescue centers like Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary near Salem, Oregon; the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary in upstate New York; and Chicken Run Rescue in Minneapolis, Minnesota—who has experienced a 780 percent increase in rescue requests over the last five years—do their best to care for animals turned out by their owners, but resources are scarce. “Most urban shelters were not designed to house livestock,” Stephen Zawistowski, executive vice president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tells Helmer, leaving them vulnerable to euthanasia.
Urban goat ownership will likely increase as cities like Minneapolis aim to overturn ordinances banning goats within city limits, joining towns including Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Charlottesville, Virginia.
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